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~{???}~

A short, elderly man wearing a costume of white and yellow sat on his couch alone as the T.V displayed the events of the festival. He tapped his cane on the ground as his eyes focused on a specific green-haired boy throughout the entire thing.

He watched as Izuku showed off his quick thinking and quick analysis by using the mines of the last zone of the obstacle course race to push himself to first place even after getting set back by an explosive teen. He watched him clashed against fighter after fighter using different levels of One For All to adjust to different situations while showing off incredible skills in martial arts.

"Hm... Interesting. It seems you've found yourself quite the successor Toshinori..." The elder grinned from his seat as his eyes were glued on the boy.

His interest was piqued even more when he saw the boy demonstrate his own power. He first caught a glimpse of it during the obstacle course race, where he saw him produce black flames to keep another boy away.

"Hm..."

He watched as, during the cavalry battle, Izuku showed no effort to bring out this power again. It was only at the last second where the elder caught a glimpse of black as Izuku grabbed a headband from another team after having leaped away, then launching himself upward with a flick of his finger.

"Now then... Why didn't ya use your actual quirk?" He raised an eyebrow.

He watched as he fought Kendo without showing his quirk, although getting surprised when he projected his voice rather destructively.

"Heh, Toshinori never did that..." He was rather amused.

Then he watched as he fought against Endeavor's son, his power only appearing once throughout that entire battle, and not even for too long.

The elder narrowed his eyes. "Could it be...?"

He watched Izuku's fight against Enso, watching him suddenly bring out this power yet again, but at a much larger and more destructive scale. He saw the look in the boy's eyes, the look of uncontrollable rage.

"I see..."

He realized something as Izuku broke his arms and unleashed a wide variety of attacks from his quirk. "So he can't control his own quirk, yet can control One For All better?"

He looked disappointed as he saw Izuku using his broken arms, shattering them but still kept on going.

"Toshinori... You've been teaching him how to use One For All, but... you haven't even taught him how to use his own quirk? Tsk!"

The elder turned off the television once he saw Izuku lose, then hopping off the couch and using his cane to help guide him to the phone.

"Well, if you wanna see something done right..."

He grabbed the phone and started dialing.

"You gotta do it yourself."

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~{U.A: Class 1-A}~

"Now that everyone has decided on their hero names, we'll go back to talking about internships." Aizawa said as he slipped out of his yellow sleeping bag.

"But what about Bakugo? He didn't choose a hero name yet." Kirishima pointed out.

"I'm giving up right now, every one of his names have been too ridiculous to let him use..." Midnight sighed.

"WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM!?" Bakugo screeched.

Momo looked disgusted while the other females either sighed or rolled their eyes.

"Can he actually not tell?" Izuku deadpanned.

"I've got a name for you Bakugo." Enso called from the back.

"HUH!?!" Bakugo stared back at him rather hostile.

Enso spelled it out with his fingers.

"How about Dienamite?" He suggested with a straight face.

"SHINE!!"

"Exactly."

Kaminari, Sero, and Kirishima covered their mouths as they desperately tried to keep in a laugh.

"Oh god, he's actually serious." Izuku thought, wondering if Enso had joked for a moment, but knew that it wasn't the case.

"Whatever, he can choose his name later. Your internships will last for a week. As for where you'll actually have them, I will pass out the lists of hero agencies that have invited each of you over. Then you can choose which agency to go for yourself." Aizawa explained.

Aizawa and Midnight passed the papers out themselves to each respected person, being careful not to mix any papers out.

As Izuku took a small stack of papers for himself, he shivered as he saw the thousands of agencies on the list, each one with a description and information.

"Th-This is gonna be hard..."

"Turn in your choices before the weekend." Aizawa said as he picked up his yellow sleeping bag.

"Only two days!?" Kaminari asked in disbelief.

"Yes, so make your decision efficiently." Aizawa finished as he left the room.

"Well, I'll be seeing everyone in my class later!" Midnight smiled as she headed to the door behind Aizawa.

On the way out, she took one final glance at Enso and blew him a kiss, the visible small red heart slowly floating over to him.

As it neared Enso, he shivered and sliced the heart in two with his dagger.

Midnight just giggled before finally leaving the classroom.

A few people noticed all this and stared at Enso with a dumbfounded expression.

Mineta was the one to jump on Enso's desk and grab him by his collar with watery eyes.

"EHHH!?? Ureshi!? What was that just now!?!"

"Don't ask me, I'm just as confused as you are..." Enso remarked with a twitching eye.

"No far... Even Enso gets a busty babe...!?" Kaminari cried.

Sero looked rather curious. "I wonder if it's because he's been hanging around Midoriya?"

Kaminari and Mineta's faces lit up.

"Hey, Midoriy-ACK!!" Both were punched by Jiro's earlobes.

"Don't bring him into this, you idiots!!" She sternly shouted.

At the same time, Izuku hadn't even noticed these events and was too busy staring at his list of agencies to stare from, forming a small frown as he did so.

"I've got a lot to think about..."

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~{Lunchtime}~

"Hey, have you guys decided on an agency yet?" Mina asked anyone listening while staring at her list of offers.

"I'm going to Mount Lady!" Mineta proudly stated.

"I'm gonna go with Death Arms." Jiro smiled as she punctured Mineta for his obvious intentions.

"I'm thinking of going with Fourth Kind! He's really manly!" Kirishima grinned.

"What about you Enso?" Kaminari turned back, only to be surprised not to see him gone. "Huh? Where'd he go?"

"I saw him leave with Midoriya. I think they already went to get lunch." Sato told them.

Mina looked disappointed. She wanted to talk to Izuku about their kiss, but when she wasn't looking the boy had already left.

"Come on Toru! To the cafeteria!" Mina grabbed her best friend's hand and pulled her out.

"Why so suddenly!?" Toru shouted as she got pulled away.

Jiro looked rather annoyed that Izuku was gone too, intending on talking to him about another matter.

"And here we were planning to talk to him about Mr. Explosive disorder and that name..." she sighed.

Momo tapped her shoulder to get her attention, then giving Jiro a reassuring smile.

"I don't think we need to talk to Izuku about Bakugo anymore. You heard him when he chose his hero name. He's fine now. Even if Bakugo still stays here, he won't be much of a bother for Izuku anymore. Even if he tried anything, then he'll just be sent out."

"..." Jiro looked down as she thought about Izuku.

Momo noticed that the source of Jiro's troubles wasn't necessarily on just Bakugo. "Is something else troubling you?"

Jiro scratched the back of her head, "Well, it's just... It's about his name..."

"About his hero name?" Momo questioned.

"About what I've called him since coming here... Deku. I know that he's proud of it now, I know that he won't let that name bother him, but... After hearing everything that happened to him..."

Jiro looked up at Momo with a frown.

"I don't think I can call him that anymore."

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~{Meanwhile}~

"So... Where are we going exactly?" Izuku questioned Enso as they made their way down the halls away from the lunch area.

"I wish to see if there's a way for you to manually activate Ikari." Enso said as an answer.

"EH!? Really!?" Excitement and hope grew in Izuku as he turned to Enso with bright eyes.

Enso nodded, "Yes, but in order to do so, it may involve something that... You won't enjoy."

"Huh?" Izuku had a bad feeling about this. "Wh-What do you mean?"

Instead of answering, Enso stopped in front of two big, metal doors.

"We're here."

Izuku looked up at the sign for the door and his eyes widened at the sign.

Development Studio.

"Th-The development studio? What are we doing here? Does this have to do with Ikari?" Izuku asked with hints of confusion.

Enso nodded, "I think there's a way to make adjustments to your costume so that you can bring out Ikari."

"Huh?" Izuku stared at him. "How can my costume do that?"

Enso's eyes narrowed into a serious glare.

"By having it inflict pain to you."

Izuku could feel a chill course through him.

"Wh-What d-do you mean by that?"

Enso closed his eyes as he explained.

"You see Izuku, pain can feed anger, whether it's physical or emotional. Pain won't cause anger, but it can help it grow in a person. So if you can use this to inflict pain to yourself, then you may be able to activate Ikari whenever and wherever you want."

"S-So you want me... to hurt myself... t-to get stronger?" Izuku asked him.

Enso nodded, knowing fully well how unsure Izuku would be about this.

"I know that it may sound bad, but you can't just willingly get mad easily. And it's even harder because it's you we're talking about. And you heard what Aizawa said about controlling your quirk, right? If you want to control it as soon as possible, then this might be the best way."

Izuku shivered as he thought about it, "B-But what kind of p-pain d-do you mean?"

"Well..." Enso reached into his pocket and pulled out a folded up paper and a blue paper with it. "I managed to get Nezu to get me a copy of your costume blueprints to see if I can make any adjustments to it for my idea. I thought it'd be simple to make a lot of changes, but it turns out, your costume was already changed."

"My costume was changed!?" Izuku took the blueprints from Enso and scanned his costume.

Sure enough, his costume had indeed been changed. His knee pads were extended and reached up to his thighs, he had some new gloves, and his respirator had been changed to metal with eight holes in it.

"Th-They didn't even tell me they were doing this! Do the support course always do this!?" Izuku said, sounding somewhat annoyed.

But his eyes then widened as he saw red markings on his costume blueprints that represented additions Enso wished to make, along with small descriptions on what they were for.

"U-Um, Enso? Wh-Wh-What is this?" Izuku shakingly turned his head to him.

"It's what I'm proposing. That's what it is." Enso immediately responded. "I had other plans, but with your costume already changed, I had to improvise. Rather than making changes to your costume directly, I think it'd be better to have these extra pieces of gear on you."

Izuku gulped nervously at the suggested changes, wondering if U.A would even approve them.

"I'm not going to force you to accept these changes Izuku, but lets at least discuss them with the person I want to meet in that room." Enso pointed at the big metal doors. He gently took the blueprints back from him before folding them and putting them in the pocket.

"I... O-Okay..." Izuku was still nervous about the changes Enso suggested but decided to just get into the studio first before discussing it more. "Let's go inside then."

He walked up to the door and pulled on the handle. However, just as he swung open the door, something suddenly large shot out and slammed right into his chest

"ACK!!" Izuku turned black and white as he was forced back and slammed against the wall behind him. He then slid to the ground with a new weight sliding onto his lap.

Enso blinked with a new look of surprise as he wondered what just happened, his vision obscured by a heap of smoke around the surrounding area.

"Ow... Ow..." Izuku grunted as his back leaned against the wall and felt his chest in pain. His eyes were closed as he winced in pain while feeling confused and disoriented as he wondered what just happened.

Enso replayed what he had just seen. Someone had come out flying backwards out of the room on top of a jetpack of the sort, causing her to crash right onto Izuku's chest and push him against the wall.

"Well then, that was... surprising..."

He then heard a voice through the smoke and saw a silhouette swinging his arm in an attempt to disperse it.

"I told you to build that jetpack on your own time!"

He cleared some of the smoke, revealing himself to be the Excavation hero: Power Loader.

"Don't work on it here! You could destroy everything!"

Then a familiar voice was heard, "My bad, at least it wasn't because my baby failed! I just pressed the wrong button!" A girl laughed.

"It doesn't matter if you were able to succeed in building it or not, I didn't want you building it in the studio anyway!" Power Loader shouted angrily.

Recognizing the other voice in the smoke, Enso brought an arm close while surrounding himself in the yellow aura of Snipe Style. Then he used the speed of the style to thrust his fist forward in a punch with enough speed and force to disperse the smoke away.

The first thing he saw was Izuku sitting on the ground with his back against the wall, yet with someone sitting on his lap with her back to him.

Power Loader saw this too, his momentary anger turning into worry as he saw Izuku.

"Hatsume! I think you hurt someone!"

Indeed, the one that had rammed into Izuku and was now sitting on his lap was none other than the genius inventor herself, Mei Hatsume.

"Hm? What do you mean?" Mei innocently smiled at Powerloader.

"You're on him." Enso pointed out.

Mei realized that she was sitting on someone's lap and glanced behind her to see a familiar, yet dizzy boy.

"Oh! When did you get here?"

Izuku slowly came to, recovering from the impact and feeling the extra weight on his lap.

"Nngh..." He rubbed the back of his head and blinked several times to snap out of his blurry vision. He saw pink and when he fully regained his sight, he saw familiar, yellow cross-haired eyes staring back at him happily.

His eyes widened completely open in shock as he processed Mei right there.

"M-Mei?!" Izuku shouted in surprise.

Mei formed a large grin, "Heya Muscles! It's good to see ya again!"

Izuku instantly turned red.

"M-M-Muscles!?!"

Mei grinned, "That was the thing that stuck out to me the most about you."

"EH!?"

She giggled.

"Hatsume, would you mind getting off of Izuku? This is inappropriate for a school environment." Enso said bluntly.

Mei glanced to Enso, "Oh, hey U!"

*Bam!*

Mei was sent spiraling in the air.

"I told you not to call me that." Enso's fist steamed from knocking Mei right off Izuku, who then landed face-first on the ground.

"Enso, don't punch her!!" Izuku yelled as he got up.

"Don't worry, she can take it, so it's fine."

"AGAIN, THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS!!"

Mei got with a grin despite her comedically swollen cheek and red forehead.

"Sounds like you didn't like that name, I'll try again later!" She declared, seemingly unfazed by that punch.

"Um..." Power Loader got Izuku and Enso's attention. "I'm assuming you guys need something from me?"

Enso turned to him as Izuku helped Mei up.

"We actually came to speak to Hatsume."

Power Loader looked relieved. "Great, you can watch her while I'm gone then. I have to do something with the other teachers, and there's no way that I'm gonna leave her in charge of this place. If she does anything that seems dangerous, knock her out."

"I don't think an adult should be encouraging that." Izuku thought with a blank look.

"We'll look after her." Enso bowed.

Power Loader then turned to Mei.

"Hatsume, behave yourself. Otherwise, you may find yourself unable to enter the studio for a while."

Mei rubbed the back of her head with a smile, "Alright."

Power Loader walked off, "I'll be back by the end of lunch!"

"We won't even have time to eat after this then." Izuku sighed.

He then turned to left, only to see Mei's intrigued face inches from his.

"KYAH!!" Izuku backed up and his breathing increased.

"How you doing Muscles?"

"U-Um, I-I'm doing fine Mei..."

Izuku then noticed that the girl in front of him wasn't wearing a normal class uniform like the rest of the students were. Instead, she was wearing some sort of work clothes. They consisted of a black tank top that greatly highlighted her healthy figure, the same black fingerless gloves she wore during the festival, and new black, baggy work pants with a black sweater tied around her waist.

Mei adjusted the goggles on her head as she turned to Enso, "So Boss-!"

Enso chopped her on the head.

"Ow-!" she winced.

"Try again."

"B-Boss?" Izuku repeated in confusion.

"Let's just get inside the studio before someone else hears this, please." Enso urged them in.

"Alrighty, then I could continue working on my babies!" Mei bolted inside.

"W-Wait! What did you mean 'boss'?" Izuku stammered as he and Enso followed her inside.

"I'll explain later. For now, let's work on the costume changes for you."

"Huh? But I don't even have my costume!"

"Costume changes!?" Mei bolted away from some of her gadgets and got right in Izuku's face with sparkling eyes and a fast breathing pace.

"GWAH! Mei! P-Personal space!" Izuku stammered as he backed up onto a table.

Instead of listening, Mei just listened to herself and started feeling upon Izuku's chest and arms. "With a build like you, we can make all sorts of improvements to your costume with my babies! Oh, it's getting me excited!"

"She's touching me! Too close!" Izuku was frozen in fear by the contact all over his body.

Meanwhile, Enso simply searched around the development studio. "Where was is it again...?" he mumbled as he started looking underneath tables.

Izuku started to push Mei back, yet the girl just kept pushing forward with an excited grin.

"What kind of babies do you think we could add on it!? Don't you think we should add them!?"

"I-I'll think about it all right!?!" Izuku stammered, hoping that at least she'd back down.

"Ah, here it is."

Both teens curiously turned their gazes at Enso as they saw him pull a case underneath one of the tables.

Izuku's eyes widened as he recognized it. "I-Is that the case for my costume!? How'd it get there!?"

"The rodent."

"Call him Nezu!!" Izuku snapped.

Enso placed the case onto the table and opened it up, revealing Izuku's new version of his hero costume.

Mei instantly bolted beside Enso and stared down at Izuku's costume with sparkles in her eyes.

"Ooo! This is your costume Muscles!?"

Izuku walked over to them, "They really did change it..." He muttered, looking somewhat disappointed that it was done without his knowledge.

Enso turned to both of them.

"I wish to have Hatsume make your costume changes now."

"Huh!?" Izuku was surprised. "Why now? And why not just request the changes from the school?!"

Enso narrowed his eyes, "You know why. You just saw what changes I'm suggesting. Do you think the school would just approve these changes so fast? We need you to control Ikari as soon as possible, and we'll be heading to our internships right now, so it's better for her to be the one to make these changes now rather than wait."

Izuku flinched, "R-Right..."

"What kind of changes do you guys even have in mind?" Mei asked as she turned from Enso to Izuku repeatedly.

Enso pulled the blueprints out of his pockets and handed it over to Mei. "This is what I have in mind."

Mei eagerly took the blueprints from Enso and began to scan it with her eyes and with an excited smile.

However, the more she looked, the lower her smile went, turning into an uncomfortable stare, the first time Izuku had seen such an expression from her.

"Are... Are you really sure about this Muscles?" She turned her head to Izuku.

Izuku nervously scratched his cheek, "W-Well... I-I don't really know myself."

Mei put the blueprints down on the table, giving herself a full view of what Enso was planning.

It turned out, Enso had planned to have a vest and upper arm braces be included in Izuku's costume, both of which had metal areas on it. And what the metal on the vest and braces both had in them were smooth, retractable metal needles that were long and skinny enough to deeply puncture into the muscle. The trigger to activate the insertion of these needles into his skin would work via Izuku clapping his hands together, to which the needles would insert themselves into him and then automatically retract back within a few seconds.

"Remember, I'm not planning these suggestions to be permanent Izuku, that's why what I'm having you include in your costume are just the vest and upper arm braces. And about the area these needles will insert, they won't leave permanent marks and will actually heal rather quickly. This is just until you can get a grip on Ikari, then you can just remove them. "

"Ikari? Is that your quirk?" Mei asked Izuku.

"Er, yeah..." He turned to his mentor, "But Enso, if what you're saying is true, that it's just a vest and braces we're making, why do I need my costume?"

"I just wanted to see how your costume looks with the other gear on, so that if it looks stupid, then I could make quick design changes."

"But... Aren't I gonna be wearing them under my costume?"

"Exactly, I don't want it to look noticeable underneath. If the shape shows, then it'll look like you just grew even bigger and unnatural chest muscles, which would look stupid."

"THAT'S THE ONLY REASON!?!"

"I've had Hatsume already produce the vest and braces anyways, but now she needs to put them on you and adjust it so that it can press against you." Enso moved on.

Izuku gave up making sense out of the reasoning.

"Hold on. Muscles, you didn't answer me before, but are you really sure about these additions?" Mei interjected.

"..." Izuku gulped nervously as he was reminded that these changes would be so that he could pierce his own skin, but if it was Enso suggesting it, then he had probably thought about it a lot. "I-I'm sure. Don't worry Mei."

Mei didn't look so convinced, but it was his choice.

"Alrighty then. But if you're doing this, then I'd be glad to be the one to help with that at least."

Izuku smiled, "Thanks Mei."

"Good, now that we're in agreement..." Enso crossed his arms at Izuku.

"Strip."

Izuku blinked.

"Eh?"

"Strip and change into your costume."

Izuku blinked a few more times as Mei adjusted her goggles looking rather interested. He then started blushing madly with an agape expression of disbelief.

"H-Here!?! Now!?! B-But Mei is here!!"

"She doesn't mind."

"I sure don't!" Mei grinned with a thumbs up.

"BUT I DO!!" Izuku's shout was enhanced by One For All, comedically sending Enso and Mei flying.

Enso flipped in the air and landed in a perfect Y stance, while Mei just fell facefirst to the floor.

"Oh come on, we only have until lunch is over. Just do it quickly." Enso sternly said.

Realizing that time was limited, Izuku sighed. "F-Fine... B-But Mei! P-Please step back and look away, p-please?"

Mei got while maintaining an innocent smile. "Okay!" She turned around with her hands behind her.

Izuku let out a breath of relief as he thought Mei listened to him, then pulling off his tie and removing his shirt.

"I think he has a little too much faith in her..." Enso thought.

As he knew would happen, the moment Izuku took his shirt off and revealed his bare chest and arms, pink dreadlocks blazed right at him.

"She's fast!" Enso thought rather surprised.

Izuku was just unbuckling his belt when he felt hands touch his back, making him completely freeze.

"Wha-Wha-!?" He robotically turned his head at Mei giggling as she felt the bare muscles of his arms once again.

"Yes, yes, yes." The inventor repeated in peaked interest.

"M-M-Mei, wh-what are you...?" Izuku whimpered.

Mei just seemed to ignore him, "Just wanted to feel again just how solid you are! You have some really thick babies of your own!" Mei moved her face near his with a satisfied grin.

Enso sighed and started walking over to pry her off.

"M-Mei! Too close!" Izuku stammered. Despite saying this, Mei reached up to Izuku's face and cupped her hands around his face, feeling them and making Izuku heavily blush.

"Plain faced, but not bad looking too..." Mei found herself thinking. She then let go and started examining his arms closely, a cringed look formed as she saw the scars on his arms. Notably, the ones from Izuku's battle with Enso.

"Whoa... These must've really hurt..."

Enso suddenly grabbed Mei by the back of her neck and pulled her off Izuku, then dropping her and using both of his hands to tightly cover her eyes and pull her to the other side of the room.

"Hatsume, that counts as sexual harassment." Enso sternly pointed out.

Seeing his chance, Izuku quickly started to change at a faster pace.

"Wha-Hey! What do you mean!? I was just getting to know Muscle's body better! It's been on my mind since seeing it at the festival!" Mei complained as she tried to pry Enso's hands off her eyes.

Izuku quickly zipped up his hero costume but paused for a second as he realized something.

"Actually, I didn't bring this up before, but you actually stayed to watch my battle Mei? I thought you'd go back to... Well, 'here' just to keep building your gadgets. Yet you stayed at the festival and watched me?"

With Izuku finishing dressing up, Enso released Mei, but the girl had stopped moving entirely with a red color in her cheeks. Despite this, she was still able to keep a straight face as she grinned and gave a thumbs up to him.

"I-I was interested in using you to make my babies more popular! So I was watching you to figure out which ones to put on you to show off while giving fanservice to others!"

"Still brutally honest..." Izuku sweatdropped.

Enso, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes at Mei.

"She stuttered."

Izuku stared down at his new hero costume which serious eyes.

"So this is my new suit..."

Enso raised an eyebrow, "Why did you put all of it on?"

"Was I not supposed to!?!"

"We need to fit the vest and braces on you, so you'll have to expose your upper body for a moment."

Izuku sighed as he took off his respirator and placed it on the table. "Then tell me that!"

"Hatsume, hand him the vest and braces." Enso instructed while ignoring him.

"I'm gonna knock him down one of these days..." Izuku felt the urge.

Mei nodded and went over to a cabinet where she pulled out both items. As she carried them over to the table, she noticed that the metal was plain old stainless steel and confusingly turned to Enso.

"Hey, why didn't you have these made out of Vibra... Vibra-whatchamacallit?"

"It's Vibranium, and there's no way I'd use such precious material for something like this. Izuku won't even have these for long anyway. I only have a limited amount of it anyways, just be glad you'll be able to work with some of it."

"Vibranium?" Izuku questioned. "What's that?"

"I wanna know too! I know it's a metal, but I've never heard of it! And Mr. Dealer won't tell me what it is-!"

"Stop calling me suspicious names." Enso karate chopped Mei on the head while snatching away the items.

Mei ignored the red bump on her head and just stared at Enso again with her usual grin.

"You gotta let me see it! Then you gotta show me where you got it from!"

"You can't just get it anywhere here. If you tried to obtain some, then some prince in a foolish panther-like black suit from Africa will try to hunt you down with an army of warriors."

Izuku stared at him with a black and white deadpanned expression.

"Enso... Is there something you wanna tell me?" Izuku asked.

"..." Enso turned away. "Nope."

"When am I gonna get to build some babies with it!? And why does Muscle need these costume changes anyway?!" Mei asked excitingly.

"Mei just ignored those suspicious words from him entirely..." Izuku thought rather baffled.

"So many questions..." Enso sighed. He turned his attention to the inventor girl. "Hatsume, I'll explain the circumstances once we get this down and promise to let you in on other things about that metal and build with it, but it has to be later. For now, you can have Izuku be a test dummy for your inventions as a form of payment for your services."

"Deal!" Mei saluted him with sparkles in her eyes.

"Wha-A test dummy!? Why me!?!" Izuku shouted with comedically bulging eyes.

"Now, Hatsume, let's start adjusting the equipment onto Izuku. I look forward to working with you." Enso shook hands with the girl.

"He ignored me entirely..." Izuku sweatdropped.

"Likewise, Mr. Happy Face!" Mei grinned.

Enso used his other hand to suddenly slap her, "You're not even trying anymore, are you?"

Mei grinned despite her swollen cheek, "Sorry, just saying whatever comes to mind until the right nickname comes out!"

"For the love of god just call me Enso..."

"Anyway, come on Muscles! Sit down and get comfortable while I put this stuff on you!" Mei suddenly appeared beside Izuku and pushed him onto a stool rather suddenly.

"Wha-hey! Mei, don't just-!" He stopped with his eyes widening as he saw Mei get right in front of him, her 'babies' seeming to bounce as much as she was in excitement.

"Gonna need you to unzip the top and put these on." She handed him the items.

"J-Just don't touch me please..."

"No promises!"

Izuku stopped just as he received the items, a dead gaze staring right at the girl.

"...Alright fine!" Mei looked rather disappointed as she backed up to give him space.

Izuku, still looking rather suspicious, unzipped his costume carefully and pulled his arms from his sleeves, revealing his upper body as he then picked up the vest to put on.

He paused for a second as he noticed a trail of blood coming from Mei's nose as she had an ear-to-ear grin directed at him.

"Um..." Izuku raised an eyebrow.

"Don't mind me!"

"..."

Since she indeed didn't make any moves, Izuku decided to just ignore her and put on the vest, slipping his arms through it and then clipping on the braces on his upper arms.

He then zipped his costume back up and stood up, rotating his arms and walking around.

"How is it?" Enso asked.

Izuku looked worried. "Er, the vest feels kind of loose."

"Yes, I can see the shape moving around. Sit down and let Hatsume make some adjustments to keep it pressed against your skin."

"I still don't get why Mei has to be the one to do this..."

"I'll make it better! Just sit back down!" Mei excitedly pulled out a screwdriver.

Izuku sat back down and unzipped the top part of his suit once again to show the vest as Mei got close.

"Be careful, if you end up messing something up, then the spikes may just stick out and pierce him." Enso warned her.

Izuku flinched, "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SAY THAT!?!"

"Don't worry Muscles! I won't mess up! I'm the beautiful inventor genius after all!" Mei confidentially got close and stood over Izuku while checking out the components of the vest.

As she did this, the boy saw her cleavage and turned red. He instinctively turned his head away to avoid looking, but Mei didn't even seem to notice his embarrassment and grabbed his head to keep it facing forward.

"Hold still and keep looking forward, moving seems to make the metal plates on this thing shift, so keep completely still." Mei instructed as she got to work.

Izuku got even more nervous as he was forced to stare forward again at Mei's babies.

He closed his eyes and tensed up.

"Girls are gonna be the death of me..."

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~{U.A Cafeteria}~

Mina pouted as she and Toru sat beside each other in the cafeteria, the pink-skinned girl repeatedly tapping her feet on the ground.

"Midori didn't come to lunch..."

"Yeah, I wonder where he went?" Toru added as she stared around the room rather confused.

Mina plopped her head onto the table, ignoring a bowl of her favorite Natto right in front of her.

"Pooey..."

"Cheer up Mina, you can always talk to him later." Toru patted her back.

Mina just sighed.

"What am I even gonna say to him once I see him?"

"Isn't that him?"

"Yeah, the guy said to have been a tormentor?"

"What the hell, what is he still doing here in U.A?"

"Maybe what we heard was false?"

"No, you hear him shout those things at the festival."

Mina's eyes opened as she tilted her head to the voices and saw several students whispering while gazing over at a blonde, lone wolf sitting at a table all by himself.

Mina formed a glare, "Serves him right..."

Toru noticed her gaze and needed to bring up again;

"Um, Mina...? You never did tell me what happened after class, about the festival."

Mina froze for a moment, wondering if she should say anything about that.

"Well... I guess I should let you know..."

At the same time, Ochako and Tsu were sitting at another part of the cafeteria, with Ochako looking somewhat disappointed.

"I wanted to talk to Deku about his hero name..."

"You didn't like how Midoriya-chan used the nickname you gave him? Kero?"

Ochako waved her hands, "N-No! It's the complete opposite! I'm really glad that he took the name to heart and it really reassured me that he's doing better after..." She turned to Bakugo's direction. "Everything that happened."

Tsu put a finger on her chin, "You never did tell me what happened after school that day. I thought Bakugo would end up getting expelled, but clearly, something happened to change that..."

Ochako sighed, "I guess I should explain."

As for Jiro and Momo, both sat beside each other only a few tables away.

"Are you really sure you want to call him by something else? I'm sure he wouldn't mind being called Deku by you. In fact, I'm sure he'd be proud to be called that." Momo tried convincing Jiro.

"I know he would, but... I can't just call him that anymore. I had no idea just how much pain that name must've been to him. And if I kept calling him that, then I would just be reminding myself of what he went through and would feel terrible about it..." Jiro said.

"Maybe you should just talk to him about it..." Momo sighed.

"I wanted to right now, but I don't even know where he went. He just disappeared with Enso somewhere..."

"Hm, I wonder where they could've gone...?" Momo then muttered as she ate a chunk of rice.

In another part of the cafeteria, Kendo sighed in frustration. "Monoma, please stop trying to plan schemes against Class A!"

Hearing that, Momo, Jiro, and rest of the class A females turned their heads with blank faces, listening to the usual conversation between Kendo and the trouble maker of Class B.

"What? I'm just asking to hold a bout between you and Midoriya using just pure martial arts in order to prove-!"

"Quit it with that, would ya?" Kendo interrupted. "We already fought at the festival and I lost, alright?"

Monoma sighed in disappointment, "Yes, I had all my hopes in you but then it ended up being a Class-A paradise to the top... But to think that Ureshi-kun would allow that villain Bakugo to win-"

"Shut it Monoma, don't badmouth others." Kendo glared.

"This isn't about me badmouthing at this point! You heard everything during that last fight, did you not? It's clear that he doesn't deserve to be in the hero course, and yet he's still here. I'm beginning to think that U.A isn't quite the 'amazing' school as everyone makes it out to be..."

Kendo lowered her head with a frown.

"I know that things seem... complicated. And I still want to talk to Midoriya about that. I checked his class a bit after lunch started, but he was already gone."

"Oh, this morning, I heard Ureshi mumble something about taking Midoriya to the Development Studio. So they might be there right now." Monoma casually mentioned.

The Class-A females all perked their heads up.

"The Development Studio?"